During the summer of 2001 six tunnel
ventilated tie stall barns in northeastern Missouri
and southeastern Iowa were evaluated.
Three of the barns were equipped with cellulose
evaporative pads and three were not.
Temperature ...

Feed intake is the single most critical
factor of dairy production, and performance
of dairy cattle can be enhanced or hindered
by environmental factors that affect it. These
environmental factors can by divided ...

Ten multiparous lactating Holstein cows
were arranged in a replicated 5 × 5 Latin
Square design to evaluate the effect of soaking
frequency and volume of water per soaking on
lactating cows housed in a tunnel-ventilated
and ...

A model was developed to evaluate the impact of facilities on cow time budgets. The model suggests that in inadequate facilities overcrowding of the facility by 25% or more resulted because occupancy rate exceeded 100%. ...

Many existing swine breeding facilities have been designed to control the environment,
provide continuous boar-sow contact for stimulating recently weaned sows to cycle, reduce the distance a weaned sow or boar has to be ...